The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 2, 1950, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT MACHINISTS TAKE CUT ON LIBRARY CASTING FOR $50 ‘The Juneau local of the Interna- tional Association of Machinists to- day took a look at that big steel billet laying on the ways of the Juneau Memorial Library fund, got out their “mikes” and found that it couM stand a sizeable cut taken off it. So, centering the large piece of metal, and after a few moments trouble finding a lathe dog big enough-to fit, set the billet turning over slowly. The compound rest was set for a quick cut, though, and the bit dug right in—no chatter whatever. The cut was set for fifty-thous- andths—or to you, $50, which brought the big billet down to a size where calipers fitted over il easily—there was just $522.19 lett in diameter. This big cut was presented to B. D. Stewart, acting chairman of the drive by officers of Local 514 of the 1AM, an independent association with about 50 members here. President is John F. Camp; Sec- retary is Russell Beadle; Treasurcr is Edward J. Dull, and Business Agent and Financial Secretary is Walter R. Hermansen. Tried for “Corner” As the drive was poised late last week on the edge of the $1,000 mark —in fact, there was just $1,047.1% left on Friday, Dr. James C. Ryan, commissioner of education and library board member, received a telephone call from Oran R. Cleve- land, retired broker of 826 Calhoun Ave,, who said he was interestea in seeing the fund around the cor- ner. Unfortunately for the sake of ac- curacy, that day an error appeared in The Empire, making the fund lack $49.19 of being right on the mark instead of $47.19. So Cleveland wrote a check for $48.20 to put it over. He didn’t tell Dr. Ryan what he had in mind, and in the meantime Percy's Cafe came along and boomed the fund around the corner with a $100 check. Then four un- known donors gave $350 to bring it down still further. Cleveland's check arrived yester- day morning in Dr. Ryan’s otfice, and it brings the amount needed now down to just: $472.99! So his check did round a corner after all—the $500 corner, which 1s just as important as the larger one passed previously. After all, it's the corners that you can skid on. FROM GUSTAVUS Jesse H. Jones of Gustavus is a guest at the Baranof Hotel 1 CITY T0 BUY MORE HARBOR FRONTAGE : NEAR CITY WHARF To increase docking and storage space at the City Wharf, the cltyl of Juneau will purchase part oi the Juneau Lumber Company prop- erty immediately south of the city’'s | wharf for $40,000. | This was decided at a special meeting of the city council last night. The property will be pur- chased fer the City Wharf, which is owned by the city but operated independent of it. The cost wiil be paid back to the city by reve- nues from the wharf, accoerding to Mayor Waino Hendrickson. Increasing the mooring space at| the city wharf by 90 feet, the prop- | erty also includes the Juneau Lum- ber Company retail shed, 64 feet wide and 200 feet long, and a smaller warehouse on the dock. The smaller building is now being used by the Anderson Construction Com- | pany, and the city, when it com- ‘pletes arrangements for the trans- fer of the property, will take overl the lumber company’s end of the storage and wharfage contract, Mayor Hendrickson said. ‘The property will be paid for over 1 three-year period. The additional 90 feet of whart ‘Ironmge at the City Wharf will 1 bring the total amount of whart i frontage to 350 feet, enough space .0 permit large freighters to dock ind unload there. The large retail shed, which ex- tends to South Franklin Street, is me-half on filled ground and one- alf on piling. Both the fill and the pile-driving were completed two years ago, Mayor Hendrickson said At the meeting last night, the council also turned a definite thumbs down on the original plan to construct a new municipal building on the Juneau Memorial Library property at Fourth and Main Streets. A motion was passed which stated in effect that the city is no longer interested in that particular land as a site for the proposed munici- pal building, which will have to be built before the Territory con- structs its new building on the A.K. Hall property and the City Hall property, | Although the city had planned, with the Memorial Library board’s consent to take over the Fourth and Main Street site and purchase | the upper half of the block as a site for the library, it was decided that there is not enough room to construct a municipal building on the property fronting on Main Street. The municipal building will include city offices, council cham- ber, police offices, jail, fire hall and health center. City officials have spotted sev- eral likely sites for a municipal building, but there is a possibility, it was indicated, that the choosing may be a simple switch from the original plan. Mayor Hendrickson said that there may be enough room for the proposed municipal building on the upper half of the block on which the library will be built. The council took the action last night to clear the way so that con- struction of the new library will not be delayed. ELLIS REYNOLDS IS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF ROTARY CLUB Juneau GroTp fo Invite District for 1951 An- nual Convention Ellis Reynolds will head the Ju- neau Rotary Club for the year beginning July 1—a year in which this club may be host for the 37th annual district conference of Ro- tarians. Members of the recently elected board chose Reynolds president; William G. Ellis, vice-president; the Rev. Samuel McPhetres, secretary- treasurer; and Neil Fritchman assistant secretary-treasurer. Mc- Phetres and Fritchman were re- clected. At the weekly luncheon meeting today in the Baranof Gold Room, Rotarians voted to invite the dis- trict to come to Juneau for the 1951 convention. Dr. W. M. White- head will be the official delegate of the Juneau club this year, at- tending the district conclave May 7-10 in Vancouver, B.C. He will ex- tend the invitation on behalf ot Juneau Rotarians. The club’s unan- imous vote today ratified the action of both the old board and the new one, at meetings since the last cluo session. In preparation for the cruise visit of Waverley, N.Y., Rotarians and their wives, President Bob Akervick made a number of committee ap- pointments, others to be announced later. The Juneau Club will be host for a picnic June 6 at a site near the Mendenhall Glacier. Transportation is in the hands of Bob Cowling, Jack Burford and Franz Naghel. Dr. Richard H. Wil- liams heads the food committee, which includes Rod Darnell, Herb Saunders, J. W. Lievers and Bert McDowell. Entertainment features will be planned by the “W’s” who make up the June program commit- tee: Hugh Wade, Peter C. Warner, WANT ADS BRING RESULTS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Keith Wildes and Dr. Williams. Dr. C.. Earl ' Albrecht made an- nouncements concerning ‘thej Rot- ary-sponsored Variety Program Thursday evening in the 20th Cen- tury Theatre of which he and Dr. I. J. Montgomery are co-chairmen. Tickets are now on sale at the Harry Race Drug store. Dr. William P. Blanton, program chairman, introduced Miss Lynde Fales of the health education divi- sion, Territorial Health Departmen?. She gave a brief preface to the unusual motion picture which com- pleted today's program. “Science Against Cancer” por- trays the extensive research in the problem of “the cell that wont stop growing.” Raymond Massey is the narrator for this effective pic- ture. Leonard Hopkins of the Anchor- age Rotary Club was a guest, and non-Rotary visitors were Rufus Lit- tlefield, Seattle; C. C. Caldwell, Anchorage superintendent of schools; C. C. Carnegie, former Ju- neau florist; Ben Mullen and Ken Foresman of the U.S. Children’s Bureau, Washington, D.C. Foresman, who represents the Bu- reau to all territories and posses- sions, is here for the annual con- ference of the Welfare Department. With Henry Harmon, Welfare di- rector, he will be in Sitka Friday| and Saturday, then go to Anchorage | next week. Foresman also will make early visits to Hawaili and Puerto| Rico. SEA CATATROPHE KILL COUNTLESS FISH NEAR SITKA Countless thousands of herring on | the spawning grounds near Godd- ard Hot Springs, a few miles south | i I l | l cause ascribable, officers of the Fish and Wildlife Service said to- day. Frank Hpynes, management for that numerous cockles, starfish also found dead beach there. The mysterious happening took place in only one small inlet, known locally as Herring Bay, about by % mile in dimension. Hynes and Elmer Hilsinger, Sitka enforce- ment agent, covered someé 160 miles chief of fisheries the service, said butter and crabs were 1 service plane, but saw no other e dence that sealife had perished else- where. Hynes first believed the cause| might have been an underwater ex- plosion, but there were ng’ indica- tions to bear this out. No red tide| | or other phenomena have been re- ported from the area, he said. We are going out of business I. GOLDSTEIN’S Miscellaneous — Fish Peughs Deck Brooms Gong Brush (20-inch) Gong Brush (3-inch) Sounding Leads (4 to 1.85 each 1.25 70c 35¢ 30c 25lbs) . . b, Bilge Pumps . . . . Were 30.00, NOW 20.25 Lead Sinkers (Cannon Ball) 30-06 Garbage Koestrand Trawling .Can.s ai. wh.olesale cost 1b. 15¢ Box 2.90 Block (6-in.) 5.40 White Metal Trawling Block (7in.) . 2.35 Sweat Shirts Canvas Gloves (Big Chief 1.75 2) doz. 4.00 .No.' 65 "'Dri-Skin" Waterproof Aprons . . 1.95 Fishermen's Wool Mitts No. 6 White Canvas — 4 Foot Width 5 Foot Width 6 Foot Width 7 Foot Width Walerproofed Tents — 8x10x10 pair 1.75 1.80 per yard 2.10 per yard 2.30 per yard 3.00 per yard 25.30 of Sitka, have been washed up on| the beach dead, with no apparent | clams, | or dying on meI of coastline in the vicinity in a! The fish were not chased to shore by a whale or blackfish, as some- times happens, but were there for spawning. Samples of each specimen found dead were sent to the service's lab- oratory in Ketchikan, but decom- position was so far advanced they were unable to determine any cause of death. Whatever it was that caused the marine catastrophe ap- parently took place some five or six days previous to Hynes being noti- fied. He was told by a local fisher- man. Particularly mysterious is the fact .hat butter clams were among the dead and dying life on the beach. This type of clam cannot move like a razor clam because it has no valve—but move they did, right ipon the beach. The deposited spawn of the dead herring looks unaffected, Hynes said. It will be due to hatch in a week or ten days, and the fry will be watched closely for symptoms, he indicated. No toxic condition was found in the water, the temperature was normal, and hundreds of birds were in the area, showing that if a poison caused the deaths, it was not harm- ful to warm blooded creatures. No previous evidence has ever been uncovered of a clam toxin af- fecting fish, so it is not believed the shellfish started the “plague.” | WHITEHEAD FAMILY OUT TOMORROW ON EXTENDED JOURNEY Dr. and Mrs. W. M. Whitehead and their five children, who range from two to 14 years old, plan to be aboard tomorrow’s Pan American flight to Seattle, starting a two- month trip of personal and profes- sional interest. They will spend some time in Vancouver, B.C., where Dr. White- head is to attend a meeting of | the Pacific Northwest Obstetrical and Gynecological Association May {4, 5 and 6. He also will be the offi- cial delegate of the Juneau Rotary Club to the 36th annual district convention there May 7-10. The family will go by train to Detroit, where they will take de- livery on a new car and continue the trip East. In New York City, the Juneau physician will attend the fourth American and first in- ternational Congress on Obstetrics and Gynecology May 14-19. The Alaskans will drive to Lynch- burg, Va., for visits with the White- head family, scheduling their return to Juneau for July 4. The junior members of the fam- ily are Virginia, 14; Page, Stuart, Suellen and Anna, 2. Cliff Stewart of Portland, Ore,, is at the Baranof Hotel. NCC CHOOSES NEW GENERAL MANAGER MACHINE DIVISION The Northern Commercial Com- | pany has picked Truman Sage, a veteran of 14 years' service with Caterpillar Tractor Co., to be gen eral manager of its Machinery Di- vision, according to a recent an- nouncement by Volney Richmond, Jr., Vice-President and General Manager of the firm. “I became well acquainted with Mr. Sage when he was in Juneau last summer,” said Ernest G. White- head, manager of Northern Com- mercial Company’s machinery store here, “and I know that he is keenly aware of Alaska’s industrial needs and opportunities. He was especi- ally interested in a tour of can- neries in Southeast Alaska, Lytle- Green Construction Company at Haines, and numerous other “Cat- erpillar” installations throughout Alaska. We expect to see him here again in the next few weeks.” Sage started with Caterpillar as| a cost accountant at the main office in Peoria, Ill, and after nine years came west as district representative working out of Phoenix, Ariz. Hei had been assistant sales manager at the company’s western headquar- ters, San Leandro, Calif., for three; years when he resigned to accept) his present position. He will make his headquarters at | the company's main office, 419 Coi- man Building, Seattle. He will Rave general management responsibili- ties for the machinery stores at An- chorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Ketchi- kan, and Nome, Alaska, and White- | horse and Dawson, Y.T., as well asi the company’s NC Marine Divi- sion with store and dockside facili- ties on Lake Union in Seattle. H. D. Stephens, closely identified with the company’s activities in the machin- ery field, continues as vice-presi-( dent. | | [ FROM _ELFIN COVE George E. Williams of Elfin Cove; is registered at the Baranof Hotel. FROM SKAGWAY Dr. R. E. Smithson of Skagway is at the Baranof Hotel. MAX PENROD HERE Max Penrod of Mt. Edgecumbe, Sitka, is registered at the Baranof Hotel. i THANK YOU THANK YOU l ‘Thanks to you voters who support-| ed me lgst election. I am deeply grateful, I solicit you again and those who did not. Clyde O. Peterson, Republican candidate for the Al- aska Legislature, itry. His famous WALTER WELKE DUE SATURDAY FOR FESTIVAL Walter C. Welke, Director of the i University of Washington Concert Band, will arrive here Saturday ‘via Pan American to adjudicate at the Southeast Alaska School Music Festival May 6, 7 and 8. Mr. Welke’s musical training was received at the University of Mich- igan where he was assistant to Joseph Maddy. In 1929 he went to i the University of Washington where he has developed one of the finest college concert bands in the coun- “marching hun- dred” have set styles for football bands all along the coast. He has been conductor of both the band and orchestra at the Na- tional Music Camp at Interlocken, Michigan, and was conductor of the Bremerton Symphony Orchestra for five years. He was also vocal soloist at National Music Camp, and di- rector of Men's Glee Club at Mich- igan. Assisting Mr. Welke in the adju- dication of cheral groups will be Mrs. Don McMullin and Mrs. Henry Harmon of Juneau. Empire Want Ads bring results— TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1950 LOW-COST COMFORT New Touralux Sleopers 7 { # SOk YMPIAN, Seattle, Twin Cities, Chicago A comfortable berth in a bright new Touralux sleeper - costs about one- third less than in standard sleepers; rail fare little more than in coaches. Striking diner and Tip Top Grill car; Luxurest coaches and private- room sleepers. Lv. Seattle 2:45 pm. Also daily service East on the air conditioned, electrified COLUMBIAN, Ask your S. S. Office, Travel Bureas or E. C. Chapman, General Agent 793 Granville Street C. Caa. R. 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